The first two thirds of this movie is really good, above average for a Hallmark Christmas movie. The plot is actually somewhat interesting and not the typical woman goes to small town and meets an old friend romance thing. Nobody is a marketing director trying to finish the "big job before Christmas," but yes of course they are all from New York City. One of the main relationships in the movie is not very convincing, but the other is pretty believable. Unfortunately, after two thirds of good plot, the movie implodes and the irresistible ridiculous events of Hallmark Christmas movies and questionable leaps of logic and timing start to occur. One "yeah right" moment happens after another, leading up to an ending that is the biggest can of cheese ever. A desperately desired epilogue is cut to a few irrelevant moments. But Alice is refreshingly believable and unique for a leading lady in a movie like this. Worth watching but the ending makes you puke.

Enjoyable Hallmark Christmas movie starring the always lovely and likable Alicia Witt as a struggling shop owner who becomes engaged to a jerk real estate agent. She takes a trip to meet his family but, through a series of events, she winds up spending the holidays with the wrong family and falling in love with the guy she thought was her fiancé's brother. It's all very contrived and maybe a little While You Were Sleeping-ish, but it's hard to dislike anything with Alicia Witt in it. Her character here is a bit of a ditz at times and we're never shown what in the world she saw in the jerk fiancé to begin with. How he even got a second date with her boggles the mind. But this is Hallmark and, if we've learned anything from Hallmark over the years, it's that the quickest way to meet your soul mate is to become engaged to a terrible person.As I said, this is as contrived a setup as you'll likely ever see in a movie. All the pieces have to fit together just right and in the right order at all times for this to work. Of course they do and it's fine. I don't watch Hallmark movies for great plots anyway. The characters are nice and the romance between Alicia's character and Mark Wiebe's character is handled well. One thing stood out to me and it's something I've seen before in other Hallmark movies. Wiebe's character builds furniture for a living but the movie makes sure to tell us he has a degree in economics. Why is it that in Hallmark romcoms the men always have to be either rich or "capable of being rich but choosing not to be?" It does seem strange, at least to me. Is there a big cry for pragmatism in romance stories nowadays?

I found this to be the best Christmas movie of 2013 and I enjoy almost all of Hallmark's Christmas films. Alicia Witt going to the wrong family's home on a mistake was actually a stroke of fate.Grandpa was a fantastic character, especially in his scenes with Alice(Alicia Witt). Matt's parents were great as well, and her fiancé's family was stiff and horrible.Naturally, the happy ending saw Alice dump Will and end up with Matt, which is how it should be. Remember, folks, you shouldn't watch a Christmas movie for anything other than pure enjoyment and this film had it in spades.And oh, by the way, I DID NOT find the music distracting. In fact, I enjoyed it very much.

This is another Hallmark Christmas movie that I did not find appealing the first time I saw it. It started off interesting...and was good up until a certain point. But eventually, "Alice" increasingly behaved too immature for a grown woman, especially one that was about to be married...and to a high-power, wealthy exec at that....Wearing her little light blue hoodie and her "little girl" hairstyle...and the way she consumed her milk and cookies...made her look like a 14 year old, with the eating habits of a 4 year old. Then "Matt" attempted to wipe off her little mouth........."Matt" was continuously over-bearing...always explaining the "Mitchum's" traditions as soon as they entered the house about mom's decor...to grandpa this and that ("Right, grandpa?"..."Right, grandpa?")...to grandma "was a real fox." (<--very odd!) The entire family was over-bearing........Be that as it may, repeats made it seem better than a lot of other Hallmark's Christmas movies. It's more tolerable.